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Originally Posted by Vincent Ferrari
All these critics would have a point IF and ONLY IF the Shuffle used standard headphones and wouldn't work with anything but Apple's buds. The people bitching about the first gen iPhone had a much stronger case than the people complaining about the Shuffle because that was just ludicrous. Even Apple realized it and changed it!
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Yeah, that's a specific example why I do believe that it's not a DRM mechanism. The Ars article I just linked to suggested the authentication is there for sanity checking's sake. But people like to get excited over stuff, and Apple manages to polarize like no other.
I personally won't be buying the Shuffle, because I like to use my earbuds. But that's too reasoned a response to talk about...
--janak